Links for 11-12-24
let the public blame-shifting begin
⭐️ Victor Davis Hanson: The fault, dear Democrats, is in yourselves. From: American Greatness. In the aftermath of the election, Democrats are engaging in public blame-shifting, while avoiding accountability for their own policies and elite disconnect, which alienated voters and led to defeat.
Many in government are worried about Trump’s return. At DOJ, they’re terrified. From: Josh Gerstein/Politico. Trump blames DOJ for much of his torment over the past four years. Lawyers there fear what’s next.
👏 FBI brass ‘stunned’ and ‘shell-shocked’ over Trump reelection. From: Kerry Pickett/Washington Times. Sources say others on the seventh floor of the FBI are so concerned about their jobs that they are likely to flood Washington’s private security job market.
It wasn't an election. It was an intervention. From: Sasha Stone. How Donald Trump rescued America from a cult.
💡 This election shows why the Electoral College is a genius idea. From: I & I Editorial Board. If the presidency were decided by popular vote, a nationwide voter fraud campaign could easily secure the necessary votes without leaving any obvious signs.
The anti-Trump media are still in denial. From: Jenny Holland/Spiked. They would rather brand Americans as bigots than acknowledge how out of touch they are.
🤥 Democrats’ political lies are now literally breeding mental illness. From: NY Post Editorial Board. Some Democrats seem to have bought into their leaders’ irresponsible, apocalyptic rhetoric — and so are damaging themselves, their families and even their children.
Free market electricity: A primer. From: Robert Bradley/AIER. Free-market electricity rests on time-honored theoretical and evidential foundations. Yet the classical-liberal alternative to heavy-handed regulation has been ignored for more than a century.
🚩 Courts are coming for digital libraries. From: C J Ciaramella/Reason. A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
Elon Musk, the leftist media's new supervillain. From: Tim Graham/Creators. Our media elites want everyone to have a very limited diet under their control. In their strange minds, losing control of the narrative is equated with the loss of democracy.
🎯 Curtain pull: How Trump’s election produced a moment of unintended honesty. From: Jonathan Turley. Telling people to ignore what they saw did not work for the Great Oz, and it will work even less for the legacy media.
Trump’s re-election: a deliciously timed reality check for COP29. From: Charles Rotter/Watts Up With That. Donald Trump’s return to the White House has delivered a well-deserved gut punch to the assembled climate faithful.
👀 Feds use ‘border security' to justify social media surveillance. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody’s liberty.
The prosecution is painting Penny as a "white vigilante.” From: Ashe Schow/Daily Wire. → Witness after witness on Daniel Penny trial say they feared Jordan Neely’s threats on subway.